A question for all Fable fans...

[handOFfate]

I just heard that there's a second ongoing Fables series, Jack of Fables. Does anybody else think that Willingham could have chosen a more interesting character to center an ongoing on? I would have voted for Mowgli myself.

[lonewolf23k]

I just heard that there's a second ongoing Fables series, Jack of Fables. Does anybody else think that Willingham could have chosen a more interesting character to center an ongoing on? I would have voted for Mowgli myself.


I thought Jack was supposed to be the big-time "wandering hero" of the Fablesverse.. the guy who's been everywhere, done everything, seen everyone..

...Can't get more interesting then that, really.

[Ilash]

Honestly, I don't care whohe chooses to base the new series on because more Fables can only be a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

[UniqueFrequency]

yeah i think jack could just be a mini-series

i for one would like to see more stories like The Last Castle... about how the heroes fought against the Adversary

[Xany Kaos]

I think Jack's an excellent choice. He's a trickster who's tricks blow up in his face often enough. He changes without actually learning, and he's always got a scheme going on. He's an intresting character that will be fun to follow and who's adaptable into just about any situation and setting. Mowgli's adaptable in a survival way. We don't even know much about him, but he seems like a pretty straight-forward kinda guy. Nice, but not necessarily intresting enough to carry a series all by his lonesome. Jack's an instigator--he'll start something, scare up some action, change things because he wants to. Mowgli doesn't seem the type.

I honestly think that if you were just going by character, Jack's probably one of the most intresting in the series. They're all intresting, but he's just got that extra edge. And he's Jack of the Tales, which means stories more or less spring up wherever he goes.

[jerrymcl89]

Jack isn't likely to be the center of the book in the way that, say, Batman is. If it was going to be that kind of book, I'd make it about Bigby. But I think Jack is an excellent choice as the wandering protagonist who encounters various adventures with various characters, which is what seems to be the plan.

[Generic Eric]

Jack will probably be a fun book. Hopefully he will run into other fables whom are unwelcome in fable town or who up to trouble that they should'nt be. I'm sure there's going to be plenty of drama and adventure awaiting.

[matt levin]

More Fables? Good in any form!
Bigby's my favorite character, but Jack has a lot of promise!
Matt

[dreadblueavenger]

There's only so much that can be done with Mowgli. He has a set of origin material to influence his character, and that's it. However Jack has a multitude of source stories to take ideas from. And I think the Jack stories are some of the most interesting types of folktales, the "tall tale" type of story. Like the story of the origin of Jack O'Lanterns, where Jack makes a deal with the devil that keeps him out of Hell, but is forced to stay in pumpkins after he dies. With so many Jack stories from both the Old World and the New, there's limitless potential, not just for stories, but for hidden facets of his character that we are yet to be shown.

[Xany Kaos]

Like the story of the origin of Jack O'Lanterns, where Jack makes a deal with the devil that keeps him out of Hell, but is forced to stay in pumpkins after he dies.

Lol, Michael (that is you, right?), I think you've got your old world myth a bit mixed up.

Or else I do.

As I remember it, it was a turnip (because pumpkins were American veggies, and the story was English) and Jack carved it into a lantern that lit his way as he forever wandered between heaven and hell.

Being stuck in a pumpkin is intresting too though. Where'd you hear that one?

[dreadblueavenger]

Lol, Michael (that is you, right?), I think you've got your old world myth a bit mixed up.


Pumpkin, turnip, whatever. It all adds up to the same thing. It's my fault of memory, the mix up probably occuring because the story leads us to the pumpkin Jack O'Lanterns. It's the origin of the face carved pumpkins, though the story doesn't feature a pumpkin itself. So I was off on one minor detail.

Of course it's entirely possible that my memory wasn't screwing with me, and that I did read a New World version of the original story. It's been a while, I don't remember. Folkloric stories do have a way of travelling to different locales and taking up the trappings of their new homes. Either way it adds up to the same thing.

Yes, this is Michael -- but who is Xany Kaos? Do I know you from somewhere?